Robert Dinterman

Robert (Bob) Dinterman is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Agribusiness within the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at The Ohio State University. He is also a team member with the Farm Income Enhancement Program supervised by Professor Ani Katchova. 

Bob earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Agricultural Economics at NC State University where his dissertation utilized spatial econometric methods to explore the regional economic impacts of broadband deployment and to evaluate the effectiveness of USDA Broadband Loan Programs. He also holds a Master’s of Economics from NC State University, a Bachelor’s in Philosophy & Economics from Clemson University, and interned multiple times with the USDA's Economic Research Services where he was involved with projects involving broadband access, rural wealth creation, and farm income.

His current research topics includes beginning farmers and ranchers, farmland values, farm composition, farm financial condition, and other farm and agribusiness related topics. More specifically, he focuses on evaluating the economic performance and characteristics of beginning farmers and ranchers with a focus on their participation rates across various programs and commodities, their survival rates, and credit constraints they face. Some of the data he utilizes includes the USDA's Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) and the Tenure, Ownership, and Transition of Agricultural Land (TOTAL) survey as well as various regional economic indicators.